From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/8931 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marco Grandis Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Sibe Mardesic Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 09:39:09 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Marco Grandis NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1466431135 22676 80.91.229.3 (20 Jun 2016 13:58:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 13:58:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: categories@mta.ca To: Luciano Stramaccia Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Mon Jun 20 15:58:47 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtp3.mta.ca ([138.73.7.22]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bEziw-0005O5-Pq for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2016 15:58:47 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:41110) by smtp3.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1bEziU-0005EI-6z; Mon, 20 Jun 2016 10:58:18 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bEziH-0004RT-SB for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Mon, 20 Jun 2016 10:58:05 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:8931 Archived-At: Together with a high appreciation of his work and seminars, Sibe =20 keeps a special place in my heart, as a dear friend and one of the =20 deepest personalities I met. Thanks to Luciano for his warm memory of him Marco Grandis On 19 Jun 2016, at 12:24, l.stramaccia wrote: > Dear colleagues., > it is with great sorrow that I inform you that Sibe Mardesic passed =20= > two days ago in Zagreb, at the age of 90. > Although Sibe was not a categorist but a general and algebraic =20 > topologist, I am sure that most of you knew his name and possibly =20 > his work dedicated from the early 80=92s to Shape and Strong Shape =20 > Theory. Anyway he was deeply aware of categorical methods as =20 > testified by the large amount of his papers, the book theory, North Holland(1982)> with Jack Segal, finishing with the =20 > monumental . He was =20 > the first to categorize Borsuk=92s Shape theory adopting the =93inverse = =20 > system=94 approach. Less than one month ago he told me the he was =20 > hardly working on a problem concerning products in the strong shape =20= > category of topological spaces. > For all who had the pleasure and the honor tho know him and to work =20= > with him, Sibe leaves a great legacy of mathematical passion and =20 > rigour together with a special humanity. > He his deeply missed by all his friends and colleagues all over the =20= > world. > Ciao Sibe, wherever you are now. > Luciano Stramaccia > > [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ] [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]